A Neighborhood

Archeologists suggest that this was a community of friends, relatives, and neighbors. People going about their daily chores—talking about the weather and the new family next door—or inquiring into the recent death of a newborn or elderly relative.

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This village grew and flourished for over 300 years. And yet, when the pilgrims stepped onto Plymouth Rock in 1620, this prehistoric community had been abandoned for over 200 years.

Montezuma Castle National Monument preserves only a few of the hundreds of similar prehistoric ruins discovered in this area.

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Again the same sad story applies to the ruins ... all were forsaken, deserted.

Over the centuries they have stood there, empty, forlorn, but ever lovely in the perfection of the dream which created them.

From the CLIFF DWELLERS by W.E.S. Folsom-Dickerson

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